Professional Development Courses

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Teachers' Domain Professional Development courses provide teachers with resources and strategies to develop effective and innovative instruction.

Inquiry and exploration drive the pedagogy of these courses. Teachers learn through inquiry, which they can use with their students after experiencing its impact on their own learning.

Digital video, interactive graphics, and other media from Teachers' Domain collections, deepen participants' content knowledge These digital resources are available for ongoing classroom use with students.

Each research-based course uses a constructivist approach to enhance learning. The courses include:

• * Active involvement in the learning process
• * Reviewing prior knowledge before learning new subject matter
• * Making and testing predictions
• * Collecting, organizing, and analyzing evidence to support a hypothesis
• * Describing, drawing, charting, and concept mapping to effectively communicate
• * Building communities of learners through online discussions
• * Monitoring progress through instructor/facilitator and peer feedback
• * Making generalizations from knowledge gained and applying what's been learned to new instances
• * Applying new content, pedagogy, and knowledge in the classroom

Through each course, videos—filmed live in actual classrooms—show teachers and students exploring science concepts together. These videos correlate to specific teaching methodologies and illustrate a variety of strategies and activities. Watching the videos helps participants integrate what they've learned into their own teaching, to create meaningful learning experiences for their students.